HER Heard

MIT-based FemTech venture to empower women via AI-assisted medical navigation support for midlife women’s health to improve patient engagement, patient experience, patient centered care, shared decision making and both clinical & functional outcomes.

Founder

MIT Critical Data

• Mentor students and postdoctoral researchers in data science and ethical AI applications in healthcare, including LLMs (large language models)
• Focus on user-centered design, design thinking, and universal design principles to enhance health tech usability for both typical and extreme users.  
• Contribute to courses, improving student engagement and learning outcomes.

Adjunct Faculty

Nehal Group LLC

Nehal Group offers a selection of services and access to an international network of content experts in healthcare. Examples of work range from local community-engaged health promotion and research for CMS and HHS, to design of an IT platform for social determinants of health measurement, to relationship management and strategic advising for an international venture-backed MedTech innovation collaboration.
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Bridging gaps for individuals and organizations, Nehal Group customizes both the package and team to achieve optimized results aligned with your unique vision and values.

President and Founder

GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group)

Provide expert consultation as a healthcare subject matter expert. 1,400 companies use GLG to help solve complex strategic and operational challenges, test hypotheses, gain market feedback, and seek mentorship, all within a rigorous compliance framework.

Council Member

MIT Sloan School of Management

Via immersion in a hub of innovation & rigorous coursework seek to tackle “wicked problems.” As a Sloan Fellow, I intend to hone skills from ~15 years of experience with new tools from social entrepreneurship and Future of Healthcare technology. In the future, I aim to deliver higher quality, lower cost, and reduced disparities in whole person health.

*Recipient of Dean's Fellow merit-based scholarship.
*Published, as senior author, a chapter on AI in healthcare with MIT Critical Data Group: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-030-58080-3_247-1 
*Lead organizer for MIT Hack4theFuture for 650+ applications, 300+ participants 35+ teams
*Organizing team for MIT Hack for Inclusion, partnering with Microsoft & Bain to co-design prompts related to data integrity for ethical AI and on workforce diversity & retention
*Awarded three MIT Sandbox grants through competitive bid
*Selected as finalist for MIT Solve & PKG IDEAS competition for social entrepreneurship

Currently on leave, working on:
-writing a book
-pursuing independent consulting
-pursing Stanford GSB LEAD certificate
-mentoring/faculty in MIT HST.936-938

Fellow, Sloan Fellows MBA program

University of Massachusetts

Dual appointment in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and Department of Pediatrics.

Assistant Professor

Community Healthcare Network

Our network is made up of 13 federally qualified health centers throughout Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Manhattan, along with two school based clinics, and a fleet of mobile vans that bring health services to underserved people in need throughout New York City. We provide judgment-free, high-quality healthcare, without regard to race, religion, orientation, gender identity, immigration status or ability to pay. We turn no one away.

Community Healthcare Network’s (CHN) mission is to provide access to quality, culturally-competent and comprehensive community-based primary care, mental health and social services for diverse populations in underserved communities throughout New York City.

Chief Medical Officer & Vice President of Medical Affairs

Massachusetts General Hospital

Attending Physician on Faculty Practice Newborn Service

Harvard Medical School

Member of Faculty

East Boston Neighborhood Health Center

Staff Pediatrician

Founder ▪ Former Chief Medical Officer ▪ MIT Sloan Fellow alum ▪ LinkedIn Top Voice

Dr. Nehal is a founder of a digital health venture incubated at MIT leading a team designing an AI-enabled digital health solution to solve a common pain point for both doctors and patients: not enough time in a visit. Her passion for personalized medicine and user-centered design in health tech is inspired by her own patient journey, the stories of over 300 women, and interviews with dozens of clinicians.

As an MIT Sloan Fellow, a Stanford LEAD candidate and graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health with a degree in data science, Dr. Nehal has honed skills in AI-enabled big data analytics, clinical decision support, and human-centered design.

A seasoned physician executive, a former Chief Medical Officer for 14 centers, a co-author of $1.8b in Medicaid value-based care reform, Dr. Nehal is skilled at public-private partnerships to advance cross-sector solutions. She is a keynote speaker and has been an invited expert to the White House, NIH, HHS, and CMS. She is focused on systems approaches for improved health and wellbeing outcomes.

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Domains of work:
➡️Consulting
Founder of healthcare consulting firm with services in assessment of new technology for clinical/cost effectiveness, quality improvement, program evaluation, clinician engagement, community partnership, change management, coaching, & personal brand. Advise on clinical standards for SaMD, FHIR, and FAVES.

➡️Medical Affairs leadership: 
-Former Medicaid medical director with deep expertise in value-based care and delivery system transformation, clinical lead on $1.8b DSRIP design. 

-Former Chief Medical Officer & VP of Medical Affairs of multi-specialty, multi-site practice setting, a certified Patient Centered Medical Home with integrated behavioral health, dental, vision, and specialty care. Responsible for compliance for quality of care, operational excellence, cost targets, population health.

-Former Chair of Provider Review Committee for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ensuring compliance with standards.

-Former Chair of IRB ensuring research ethics and safety.

➡️Communication:
Keynote speaker and a four time LinkedIn “Top Voice” and invited to speak on social media in STEM and for physicians. Led grassroots campaigns in marginalized communities on behalf of White House and HHS. Advisor to federal and state agencies. 

➡️Medical Education
Physician leader who has co-authored national ACGME compliant curriculum and contributed to two state public health curricula. Published refugee health curriculum in an open access journal.

#Caregiving depends primarily on daughters doing unpaid work without sufficient support. Let’s build a better system to support elders and caregivers. 

#eldercare #aging #disability #dementia

Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH, MBA

Somewhere tonight, a daughter is learning to insert a feeding tube using YouTube. Her mother, who once taught her how to tie her shoelaces, no longer even recognizes her face. The home health aide hasn't shown up in three days. This is America in 2025. 💔 

We are living through an "inversion" nobody planned for. More Americans will be over 65 than below 18, the first time in our history. Your parents might live twenty years past retirement. You and your partner? Four aging parents between you to take care of. Maybe one sibling to share the weight. The arithmetic of care has become IMPOSSIBLE, and we're still pretending it's a "private family matter".

Medicare won't pay for the care your parents actually need. The system was designed when families were large and women's labor was assumed to be free. Now we have 63 million family caregivers - mostly women - performing $600 billion in unpaid work annually. Women lose an average of $324,000 in lifetime earnings to caregiving.

We've built an ENTIRE healthcare system on the assumption that someone's daughter will always be available, exhausted, and broke.

In my latest article in MarketWatch, I reveal the immigration policy change that's about to collapse what's left of our care system, the states where families wait a decade for basic help, and why the geographic reality of American families makes the old assumptions about care literally impossible. I also share what happened when caregiving reached my own doorstep - and why it changed everything.

I think caregiving needs to be valued as ESSENTIAL INFRASTRUCTURE. The bridges are falling, but they're made of human beings.

What's your family's plan for what's coming?

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